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Renaissance Art. AP European History. Patronage . Florence was the leader in Renaissance art especially in the quattrocento (1400s) Massive patronage for the arts came from wealthy merchant-families (such as the Medicis ) who commissioned countless works from the great artists. . - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Renaissance ArtAP European History
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Patronage
Florence was the leader in Renaissance art especially in the quattrocento (1400s)
Massive patronage for the arts came from wealthy merchant-families (such as the Medicis) who commissioned countless works from the great artists.
also came from local churches who increasingly saw Renaissance art as a means of glorifying God
Rome became the center of Renaissance art in the 1500s (cinquecento)
Pope Alexander VI (r. 1492-1503): most notorious of the Renaissance popes; spent huge sums on art patronage
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New Techniques-Painting
perspective: 3-D effects on a 2-dimensional surface
chiaroscuro: use of dark and light colors to create the illusion of depth
Faces of subjects expressed unique individual characteristics (embodied Renaissance ideal of “individualism”)
more emotion was shown on human faces
sfumato developed by Leonardo; a technique of blurring or softening sharp outlines
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Sculpture
was often free-standing, designed to be seen in the round
Heavily influenced by ancient Greek and Roman sculpture
Many sculptures glorified the human body and many portrayed nude figures (like works in ancient Greece and Rome)
Like Renaissance painting, many Renaissance sculptures glorified the individual
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Architecture
Utilized ancient Greek and Roman forms such as Greek temple architecture, Greek columns, Roman arches and domes.
Simplicity, symmetry and balance.
Contrasted sharply with the highly-ornamented gothic style of the middle ages of pointed arches columns below
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The Artists
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The Florentines
Giotto (1266-1336) considered perhaps
the first Renaissance painter; use of chiaroscuro
THE WEDDING AT CANA FRESCO SCROVEGNI
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Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
Il Duomo atop Santa Maria del Fiore (1420-34) was the largest dome in Europe at the time of its construction
Considered the “father” of perspective
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Lorenzo Ghiberti (1378-1455)
Won a contest in 1403 against Brunelleschi that earned him the commission to sculpt the bronze doors for Florentine baptistery
Michelangelo called his 2nd set of bronze doors the “gates of paradise”
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Donatello (1386-1466)
His bronze statue of David (1408-09) was the first since antiquity.
First Renaissance artist to utilize a nude figure in sculpture
contrapposto
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Masaccio (1401-1428)
first Renaissance painter to portray real, nude human figures in 3-D
Expulsion of Adam and Eve (1427): fresco shows tremendous emotion; both figures are nude
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Sandro Botticelli (1444-1510)
good example of humanism as the subject is Venus, the Roman goddess of love.
Venus’ stands in contrapposto
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High Renaissance Artists
centered in Rome (16th century)
The worldly “Renaissance Popes”—Alexander VI, Julius II and Leo X—provided tremendous patronage to the arts
Characteristics: classical balance, harmony, restraint
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Bramante Principal architect of
the rebuilt St. Peter’s cathedral, although some of his plans were altered after his death
Tempietto (San Pietro in Montorio) marked the beginning of the High Renaissance in Rome
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) The quintessential
“Renaissance Man” Painter, sculptor,
architect, engineer, writer, scientist
Mona Lisa (1503-1507)
Considered one of the great masterpieces in all of art history
Leonardo developed the technique of sfumato
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Raphael Santi (1483-1520)
Created numerous “Madonna and Child” paintings
School of Athens (1510-11) is a quintessential example of humanism
Greco-Roman architecture is prominent
Plato & Aristotle are in the center of the painting
Sculptures are painted in contrapposto stance
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Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564)
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Titian (c. 1485-1576)
Greatest painter of the Venetian school
Use of vivid color and movement, in contrast to more subtle colors and static figures of the Florentine style
Holy Family with Shepherd
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El Greco (1541-1614)
Mannerism Reaction against the Renaissance
ideals of balance, symmetry, simplicity and realistic use of color
High Renaissance had taken art to perfection; there was little that could be done to improve it; thus, mannerists rebelled against it
Works often used unnatural colors while shapes were elongated or otherwise exaggerated
Toledo
Laocoon
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Northern Renaissance Art
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Flemish style
Heavily influenced by the Italian Renaissance More detail throughout paintings (especially
the background) than the Italian Renaissance Use of oil paints (in contrast to Italian
Renaissance that used tempera) More emotional than the Italian style Works often preoccupied with death
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Jan Van Eyck (c. 1339- c. 1441)
Most famous and innovative Flemish painter of the 15th century
Perfected oil painting Naturalistic wood panel
paintings used much religious symbolism.
Arnolfini and his Wife (1434) is perhaps his most famous work.
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Bosch (c. 1450-1516)
Master of symbolism and fantasy
His art often looks surrealistic (like Dali of the 20thcentury) and focused often on death and the torments of Hell.
Works reflect confusion and anguish that peoplefelt in the Later Middle Ages
Death and the Miser (c. 1490)
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Germans
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)
Foremost northern Renaissance artist.
First northerner artist to master Italian Renaissance techniques of proportion, perspective
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Hans Holbein the Younger (1497-1543)
Premier portrait artist of his era: painted Erasmus, More, numerous portraits of King Henry VIII and also his family members
The Ambassadors (1533) encompasses some of the major themes of the era: exploration, religious discord, preoccupation with death and the rising tide of international relations in an age of expansion